Psy exercise is baddy-bad-badness if you do it within some (like at least 2+) hours of wanting to sleep.
Couple of caveats about THC: I don’t smoke myself, and of the pretty much everyone I’ve ever known who do smoke, only an almost exact handfull of formerly heavy smokers and now non-smokers have mentioned it to me in relation to sleep deprivation. And all of them smoked Hash, though I’m pretty firmly of the impression the hash in question was a couple of grades above the best of skunk (but again, note I don’t smoke. At all. Always made me carsick so it’s probably 15+ years since I’ve even tried to smoke).
But… I can kind of offer a really tiny amount of anecdotal un-evidence that more than.,, I fuess maybe 2g’s of reasonably good skunk before you go to work in the morning, might possibly somehow have a tiny chance of causing insomnia. I mean… To me it’s convincing enough I’d lay off more than that for two weeksies if I were you and smoked more than that. Dunno if it’s even remotely relevant, of course, much less helpful.
Coffee: None for at least 6 hours before you want to sleep. Kind of have a vague impression you’re a southern fairy like more than half of me was once upon a time, though, so you might want to adjust that to 8 hours on Fucking-Hairy-Teeth-Black and Proper Mug grounds.
Same thing (least 4 hours) for most sodas, whether or not there’s caffeine in it. Just about any will have a crapload of stuff in it that at the very least isn’t conductive to sleeping, and even among the caffeine-free stuff, a lot have what amounts to equally potent stimulants.
Sugary stuff is much the same as getting your pulse up: 2+ hours free from all of it before you want to sleep (including natural stuff like munching an apple or whatevs). And of course, more sugars means you should get your fill earlier in the day. Oh and, Chocolate is every bit as sleep depriving as caffeine, apparently, even though it doesn’t affect your ability to concentrate at all.
Finally, once upon a time there was a Swedish study that showed pretty convincingly that in a very, very few select individuals (like less than 1% or something I think) nicotine could set back the body’s melatonin production cycle with.. Fuck.. Like a couple of hours or something. Point being that for a very select unlucky few it could make them not feel sleepy unless physically exhausted for half the night, and make them feel completely knackered to.. like.. Noon or something. But it was a rare-rare thing.
– Tried pretty much anything under the sun and had sleep studies done and stuff years ago. Of course, nothing really worked on me until I … “lucked” into a situation where I could use a very small amount of a proper stim every day. Which is a very different kind of RAARGH F’ING SLEEP ALREADY than yours :p
Incidentally, I used to eat Melatonin like candy for almost a year back in… 2000-01 or so (actually had to mailorder the shit from the US because it didn’t have the (fucking Germany) local equivalent of FDA approval.. Only reason I found out about it was from one of the docs doing sleep studies on me) until my sleepy doc kindly informed me that you pretty much have to .. uhm.. absorb? 50+ times a body’s normal dusk/nighttime melatonin (like.. half a pill bottle or something) level before it possibly can affect your ability to sleep, and even then you will generally just feel more tired for longer after waking, and not be better at sleeping. So… Melatonin is mostly worth a shot if you’ve had an actual skull fracture that you think is connected to your insomnia, and… It’s… No kind of drug at all, except for maybe oversleeping and getting the boot.
